Dr Alberto M Zanni

Alberto M Zanni is a Research Assistant (part-time) working on the Low Input Farming and Territories (LIFT) project. He also works in the Centre for Environment, Development and Policy at SOAS, University of London, where he delivers online environmental economics modules. He was previously at Loughborough University (Transport Studies Group, School of Civil and Building Engineering), and obtained his PhD in Economics from Imperial College London, at the former Wye campus. 

Alberto’s research has focused on the economic analysis of the interactions between transport choices and the environment, and the economic valuation of environmental goods and services. He has used discrete choice experiments, and other survey-based methodologies, in several applied research projects and analysed people’s transport choices, acceptability and behavioural impact of carbon tax and trading, and the economic value of urban streets, cities’ greenspaces, cycling and walking infrastructure, among other topics. He has also collaborated with transport industries, local authorities, and the government. In the LIFT project he returns to rural areas, which were the subject of his PhD, and analyses people’s preferences for rural landscapes shaped by the transition to ecological agriculture.